Biography

Disambiguation

Before proposing or merging profiles with this Robert Day, please carefully consider the following:
Jacobus set forth the arguments (in 1953) to separate the Robert Day of Ipswich {1635}, and Robert Day of Hartford {1636}. Savage also has the correct assignment of records. Various other authors have confused the early records for this immigrant and Robert Day of Ipswich {1635, Ipswich}.

Ipswitch, England to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Sailed on the ELIZABETH of IPSWICH, Mr. William Andrews, Master. According to emigration records, Robert was age 30 when they arrived in Boston, 1 APR 1634. Mary was listed as Wife aged 28 on the same records. First settled in Newtown now Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634.

Monument

Monument erected in old cemetery on Gold Street, "in Memory of The Courageous ADVENTURERS who inspired and directed by Thomas Hooker Journeyed through the wilderness from Newtown (Cambridge) in the Massachusetts Bay to Suckiauc (Hartford)- October 1635

Occupation

Inspector of Chimneys and Ladders, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Note

Robert Day of Hartford, Connecticut was the son of Richard Day and was born July 31, 1604 in Kilburn, Yorkshire, England. The following excerpt was taken from The Register of The Descendants of The Male Line of Robert Day of Hartford printed in 1840.

"The first knowledge we possess of our ancestor, Robert Day, commences with his emigration to America, in April, 1634. He was at that time thirty years of age, and was accompanied by his wife Mary, aged twenty eight, as is gathered from the list of passengers of the bark Elizabeth, in which he took passage from Ipswich in England to Boston in New England. He was born therefore about the year 1604."

"On his arrival in this country, he first settled in Newtowne, now Cambridge. His wife Mary probably died soon after. He was made freeman May 6, 1635, which shows him to have belonged to some church in the jurisdiction. In 1639, we find him a resident of Hartford, Conn. of which place he was one of the first settlers. As such his name is found on the monument erected to their memory in that city."

Robert Day was one of the twenty-five courageous adventurers who settled Hartford in 1635, in advance of the main community under Hooker in 1636. [2][3][4]

"For his second wife, he married Editha Stebbins, sister of Deacon Edward Stebbins (or Stebbing) of Hartford, and had four children. Robert died in Hartford, in 1648, aged 44. From a comparison of the dates of his will, and of the inventory of his estate, it is evident that his death occurred between May and the middle of October in that year."

Editha Day next married Deacon John Maynard of Hartford, a childless bachelor at the time. Ten years later, he died without issue, and left his estate to Editha and the children of Robert Day. Editha married next, Elizur Holyoke of Springfield. Two of Robert's children moved to Springfield with her, Thomas Day and Mary Day. They each were married within a year, and settled with their spouses in Springfield. Sarah Day married in Hartford but later removed to Hatfield. John Day remained in Hartford.

Will of Robert Day of Hartford Connecticut

Also found in EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1635 to 1650. Page 487 [given verbatim from the typescript text on page 8 of A genealogical Register of the Descendants of Robert Day...]

Will of Robert Day of Hartford Connecticut:
Copy of the Will and Inventory of Robert Day.--Colony Records, vol. 1. pp. 255, May 20th, 1648. The will of Robert Day hee being sick and weake, yet in perfect memory doth order and dispose of his estate to his wife and children, in the manner following: I give vnto my beloued wife Edatha Day my now dwelling howse and howsing thereto adjoyning, howse Lott, Allso all my Land whereof I stand possessed, or that of right doth belong vnto mee, lying in Hartford, during the tearme of her naturall life, And at the end of her life, my will is that the said howse and land shall bee devided in an equall proportion; my will allso is that all my howsehold stuff, and Cattle and other moveable goods shall bee my wives to bring up my children.

And in case my wife should bee married to another man, then my surviers of my will shall have power if they thinke good to take security for the bringing up of the children, and for so much estate as shall bee thought meete by them, and to this my last Will and Testament I make my wife my Executrix, and I doe desire my Deare Brethren Mr. Tailecoate, Willerton, and Stebbing, to take care of and Assist my wife in the ordering her selfe and my children, and I give them power to doe what in their Judgements may bee for the best, to bring up my Children and dispose of them, and that I leave, for theire good

And to this my will I sett to my hand the day above written. EDWARD STEBBING, ROBERT DAY WALLTER GAYLERD. 14th October, 1648.

JOHN TAILECOATE GREGORY WILLTERTON EDWARD STEBBING : _________________ (?)
Posnet, a little basin or skillet. (?) Ochimy, (alchemy) a mixed base metal. (?) Latten, tin, iron plate covered with tin. Bandoleers, a large leather belt, thrown over the right shoulder, and hanging under the left arm ; worn by ancient musketeers for sustaining their fire arms, and their musket charges, which being put into little wooden cases, and coated with leather, were hung to the number of twelve to each bandoleer.

The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records, database, Google Books: 2008. Extracted from William DeLoss Love, Ph.D. The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records. Hartford, Connecticut, Publisher: William DeLoss Love, 1914. page 7-13.

↑ * The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records, database, Google Books: 2008. Extracted from William DeLoss Love, Ph.D. The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records. Hartford, Connecticut, Publisher: William DeLoss Love, 1914. page 7-13.

Acknowledgments

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Born about 1604 (aged 30 in 1634). Came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Elizabeth." First settled in Cambridge; moved to Hartford by 1639. Died between 20 May 1648 (date of will) and 14 October 1648 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGES: (1) By 1634 Mary _____, born about 1606 (aged 28 in 1634. She must have died soon after arrival in New England, or perhaps even on the voyage in 1634.
(2) By about 1636 Editha Stebbins, sister of EDWARD STEBBINS {1633, Cambridge}. She married (2) by an unknown date John Maynard and (3) by 1663 (and probably earlier) Eleazar Holyoke. She died at Springfield 25 October 1688
Robert Day migrated with and lived near NATHANIEL ELY {1634, Cambridge}, and so some relationship is possible.
On 30 April 1634, "Robert Day," aged 30, and "Mary his wife," aged 28, were enrolled at Ipswich for passage to New England on the Elizabeth.
Various authors have misallocated the early records for this immigrant and ROBERT DAY {1635, Ipswich}. Savage got it right; in 1953 Jacobus carefully set forth the arguments for the correct interpretation.

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